Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-21
MORE GAS
Is WHAT WHEELING MANUFACTURES
MUST HAVE.
A Scheme on Foot Which, If Successful, is Likely d
Furnish Them all f.sy Need and
Much M5se.

Our citizens are we'll aware of the fact
that there has been a great deal Of COM
plant lately among manufacturers concern
ing the weak supply OF natural gas, and
it is becoming known abroad. This Is not
conducive to the advancement Of the city
in an industrial way, and no doubt If u
side manufacturers who are looking for
some place TO locate either new or old estab-
lishments, in order to secure the adyan-
tage OF natural gas as o fuel, they would
be apt to pass Wheeling by and go to Pitts
burg or some other place, when they ind
that our present manufac tories cannot OBJ
tain a sufficient supply OF gas to meet their
wants, and that some Of them have been
compelled to return to the use Of coal.
If manufacturer should come here and
inquire about Wheeling's advantages,
our people could not assure them Of an
abundance of gas fuel, because no effort,
apparently, has been made to remedy the
fault, and the very thing that Wheeling
has based her boom upon
Is SADLY DEFECTIVE.
Our people cannot fail to see that this de-
feet must he remedied, aud that as soon as
possible, because there IS no reason in the
world why we should not possess as good q
supply of gas as any othes city In the
same category. There can be no denial of
the fact that this matter has already been
allowed to rest too long, and an effort
should be made in some direction to cor
rect the failing. All the great advantages
Wheeling possesses as n manufacturing and
mercantile center have many times and oft
been expatiated upon, and the browning
one was natural gas, bat now we are part
" robbed of that, aud it is known only too
we'll. Now, what is to be done, or rather
what is going to be done?
A reporter ran across Mr.. John Water
house, of the firm of JOS. Spiedel & Co,
Yesterday, who informed him Of
A SCHEME
that was on foot to give the city a supply
of gas that would furnish all her manu-
factories as well as those of Benwood and
Bellaire as much as they can use and a
great deal more. Mr.. Warehouse is a
s%tockholder in the Ten Mile OIL and Gas
Company, which has an extensive gas
plant located in Washington county,
twenty-five or t~wenty-siX miles northeast
of this city, and in answer to an interroga-
tory concerning this plant Mr.. Waterhouse
said:
I'VE have on our property one OF The
largest gas wells in the gas country, with
another on the way, now l,O39 feet deep,
which the company prefers to hold back
until q market can be found for the gas.
The we'll already in is 10 feet in the gas
sand and the flow is heavy. After blow
ing off half an hour recently a test was
made with the following results: In a
half minute the pressure indicated go
pounds: in one minute, $50 pounds, and
in five minutes, $50 pounds. We were
boring for oil, but as we secured such a
fine flow of gas, would like to utilize it.
The gas sand is heavy, and the indications
are splendid for
ITS STAYING QUALITIES.
We have 1,600 acres in one piece and 900
in another. So you see we have an mex
haustible field"
"What is the scheme to bring the gas
into the city?"
my idea is to have the manufacturers
of the vicinity to form an independent
company which would lay and operate its
own line, by which means they could Sc
cure a supply of gas that would be con-
tinuous and plentiful. 1t appears to me
that if q large gas main was laid from the
new field to our city it would give us a
bigger boom than we have yet experienced,
and the fact of the gas being drawn from a
field that would not be reached by other
large cities would give US an abundant
and inexhaustible supply, and then we
could invite the world to come and help us
use it,"
The reporter further learned that a meet
ing of the manufacturers OF this vicinity
would be called for the near future to take
the matter into consideration, and it is
very probable that good results will come
of such a meeting. The Chamber of Com
MERGE might take a hand in the matter,
and probably it will when it is properly
presented to it.
EXAMINE our Gentlemen's fine Wauk.